Light-based science : technology and sustainable development / edited by Azzedine Boudrioua, Roshdi Rashed and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan.

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Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2018]
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Other Authors:
Boudrioua, Azzedine (Editor)
Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan (Editor)
Rashid, Rushdi (Editor)
Subjects:
Optical engineering.
Optics > Research > Middle East.
Solar energy.
Light > Philosophy.
Sustainable development.
Format: Electronic eBook
Light-based science : technology and sustainable development /
Table of Contents:
  • part Section I History Guiding the Future, the Ibn al-Haytham Legacy
  • chapter 1 Ibn al-Haytham’s Scientic Research Programme
  • chapter 2 Light and Vision before Ibn al-Haytham: The Perspective of Islamic Theology
  • chapter 3 From the Reasons of Light to the Lights of Reason: Remarks on the Nine Centuries Distant Ibn al-Haytham’s and Albert Einstein’s Respective Approaches of Light as Conceived Physically
  • chapter 4 Translating and Interpreting Ibn al-Haytham’s Optics from Arabic to Latin: New Light on the Vocabulary of Reection and Refraction
  • chapter 5 Ibn al-Haytham: The Founder of Scientic Pluralism
  • chapter 6 Ibn al-Haytham: Founder of Physiological Optics?
  • chapter 7 Ibn al-Haytham’s Problem
  • chapter 8 Ibn al-Haytham and His Inuence on Post-Mediaeval Western Culture
  • chapter Section II Light-Based Technologiesfor the Future
  • chapter 9 Photonic Technology: Recent Developments and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
  • chapter 10 Ibn al-Haytham’s Thousand-Year Journey from Basra to Mars
  • chapter 11 Ibn al-Haytham and the International Year of Light: His Legacy
  • chapter 12 New Short-Wavelength Pulsed Light Sources
  • chapter 13 Lighting: From Human Evolution to Sustainable Revolution
  • chapter 14 Mediaeval Arab Achievements in Optics
  • part Section III Optics and Photonics in theArab and Islamic World,Education and Investment inLight Sciences and Technology
  • chapter 15 Need to Create International Science Centres in Arab Countries
  • chapter 16 SESAME: The First Synchrotron Light Source in the Middle East and Neighbouring Regions
  • chapter 17 Scientic Translation: A Tool from Shadow to Light
  • chapter 18 Optics and Photonics Research in Lebanon: Key Figures, Ways Forward.

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